This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

“Today is sad day for the City of Los Angeles and the residents of CD 14. I believe the residents deserve better and more ethical representation. My campaign will continue, and I will continue to work hard to bring public accountability, transparency, and fiscal responsibility to the Office of the City Council. We will continue to engage the voters of Council District 14 on the issues that are important to them until they decide the outcome of this election on March 8th." - Statement from the Rudy Martinez for City Council Campaign.

LA’s CRA built the Hollywood & Highland Center for $600 million and then sold it to the CIM Group for $200 million. The City of LA then ponied up an additional $30 million to remodel the Kodak Theatre for the CIM in a move that Curbed LA (link) referred to as “Send in the Clowns!”

It's about time an investigation is conducted!!! Enough is enough with Huizar! Time to VoTe Huizar OUT of OFFICE! It is a given his political days in office are numbered!Bow out gracefully Huizar because you look like a complete idiot who really doesn't know his ass from a whole in the ground. Your politics are nothing but a sham and your so-called love for CD 14 is getting old. Real fast. You have screwed over a lot of innocent people who work and mean well in CD14. Your so called adversaries are really the people you should have tried to build an allegiances with all along. They have done a hell of a lot for the communities than you have ever did! To this very day you run and hide from them. You are such a childish joke. Grow-up!

Your limited camp of Huizar support is very limited indeed... Who is Mago? Vera Del Pozo? Jose Aguilar? Sal Martinez? (Ex-gang member) Your entourage of support is an entourage of interlopers and wanna-be educated uneducated inarticulate individuals who cannot even express themselves in an intelligent manner.

Time to pack-up your stuff at the office because it's time for you to go bye bye...

Let the investigation proceed. Quiet on the set... Roll 'em... Action. BTW--Jessica McFat McClean is too too FAT for Hollywood. Send her to New Jersey to be a milk producing cow. GOD DAMN SHE IS ONE FUCKEN UGLY SOW! She puts Redd Fox's sister-in-law Esther to shame!!! Puke... Yuck... Run for the hills!

Officials have closed a federal investigation into Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar's consulting work for a now-defunct nonprofit linked to organized labor. Huizar had received about $30,000 from the Voter Improvement Program for consulting services he performed in 2003 and 2004 while serving as an elected board member for the Los Angeles Unified School District, according to Huizar's public disclosure forms and sources close to the investigation. Huizar announced Tuesday that investigators had cleared him of further review, and sources with knowledge of the probe confirmed it. In a brief statement, Huizar said, "I will continue to hold myself to the highest ethical standards."

Will Huizar be lucky again or will this federal investigation do him in? Inquiring minds want to know?

Skelton said the councilman's family sent the check to end a billing dispute and "put it behind them." Skelton said Martinez has a history of "making stuff up" and noted — as Huizar has in recent campaign appearances — that Martinez has a criminal record.

During his late teens and early 20s, Martinez was convicted of loitering, reckless driving and two misdemeanor counts of battery. Martinez said those convictions, occurring from 1985 to 1992, came during a turbulent period in his life, when he was distraught over the murder of his brother.

A spokesman for Huizar strongly denied that any federal investigation was underway involving the councilman and said the check from Huizar's wife arrived only recently because the amount due had been in dispute. Parke Skelton, a Huizar political consultant, said Martinez is "stirring up as much trouble for Jose as he possibly can" because his campaign is in trouble.

"No one is investigating Jose," he said.

How does Parke Skelton know what the federal agencies are doing?

Using Parke's logic that Rudy is stirring up as much trouble for Jose because Rudy's campaign is in trouble, then Jose's campaign must be in BIG trouble considering the amount of trouble Jose is stirring up for Rudy.

NO ONE IN L.A. except BUMS get "arrested" for loitering. They get much worse charges plea bargained DOWN to loitering, in exchange for a quilty plea.

But since Rudy's not "transparent" enough to really tell the truth about that, we can only imagine. So, what are the more criminal "loitering-ish" crimes? Stalking? Playing lookout for drug deals? Cruising to buy drugs? Drunk and disorderly? Soliciting a prostitute?

(Until he fesses up, let's just imagine?)

Just a few examples to whet your whistles.

RECKLESS DRIVING is code for DRUNK DRIVING more times than not. In exchange for entering a program.

Misdemeaner battery? Twice? (Pled down, pled down, pled down.)

(Once to "defend his father, from the bouncer who worked at his father's bar"?? Wait, what was all this about being ABANDONED by his alcoholic father, and raise by a single mother?)

Is this a life, or some dime store novel -- with alternate endings.

Some aggresive reporter needs to find out what Rudy Rich was REALLY arrested and charged with - NOT what he pled down to ... but no one will try.

And then there's the MUCH more recent "police badge" issue, that the thin blue line swept under the rug. But once again, "Mr. Transparent" won't "dignify those questions with an answer!"

There are a couple reasons why the FBI would be "talking" with Rudy about Huizar.

1) They were investigating Huizar (what all the haters presume, w/out any basis in fact).

OR 2) Rudy Rich, now candidate Rudy, aka 'Rudy the RAT' pissed off about contested bills on the house (3 f*cking years later - well ain't that convenient... just in time to make some election headlines down the pike?)-- he goes to THEM, the FBI, and tries to stir up trouble for Huizar in advance of the current race.

Nowhere does Rudy say the FBI sought HIM out, contacted him, asked him to come in a chat. . . he just says they asked him questions.

Who instigated the meeting? And what sort of lies did the honesty-challenged challenger pop off with to get them involved.

And if ex-employees were also contacted, did that happen AFTER Rudy ratted?

Sounds like it.

(Remember, once before Huizar was checked out, and they owned up to the fact that there was an investigation and said they'd cooperate willingly. They'd do the same thing now, if it was happening.)

2.53, I don't think it was a Federal offense that Martinez pled down. But it does seem the Feds are investigating Huizar AGAIN and I believe Martinez only told a very small part of the story to The Times. So, either more information is going to be leaked every day or so - or Huizar will be arrested at some time. I cannot imagine the Feds investigating Huizar AGAIN merely to drop it.